Michael Wilson, MD PhD FAAEM FACEP
Dr. Wilson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Emergency Medicine. He is a proud Midwesterner, having obtained both a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and a medical degree at the University of Illinois. He currently serves as the Director of Emergency Psychiatry Research for the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry and as the Director of the UAMS Department of Emergency Medicine Behavioral Emergencies Research (DEMBER) lab. The DEMBER lab’s research primarily focuses on applied psychiatric emergencies of clinical relevance to emergency physicians, with recent projects on suicide screening, agitation, and the side effects of second generation antipsychotics in an ED setting. He is a reviewer for several academic journals and is published broadly in the field of behavioral emergencies and agitation.